Follow XBRL from birth to present; AICPA releases chronology.

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The AICPA has released The Story of Our New Language, a paper documenting the history of XBRL from its origination by Charlie Hoffman, CPA, in 1998 to its adoption for public company reporting in the U.S. a decade later. XBRL's success has been bolstered by the AICPA's and accounting profession's support and leadership since inception. Their key decisions to make XBRL intellectual property available in the public domain and to give XBRL its own organizational...

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